^itmicmts jOqmtttUHt. Dropped the Subject.?'-Ten thousand dollars for a dog !" he exclaimed as he looked lip from his newspaper. "Do you believe any oue ever paid any such a price, Maria ?" "I'm sure I dou't know, James," she returned, without stopping her needlework even for a moment. "Does the paper say that much was paid ?" "Yes, there's an article on valuable dogs and it speaks of one that was sold for $10,000. I don't believe it." "It may be true, James," sire saiu quietly. "Some of these blooded animals briug fancy prices, aud there is no particular reason why the paper should lie about it." "I know that, Maria, but just think of it?just try to grasp the magnitude of that sum in your weak, feminine mind. You doD't seem to realize it. Ten thousand dollars for a dog ! Why, Maria ! that's more than I am worth !" "I know it, James, but some are worth more thau others." She went calmly on with her sewing, while he fumed and sputtered for a moment and then dropped the subject, especially the weak feminine part of it. Truly a Serious Case.?Once I was assistant to an elderly doctor in Ontario, who also ran a drug store. He was as peppery as a cayenne pod, and from time to time customers and patients had sprung jokes on him, just for the fun of hearing him blow off. On one occasion a well-dressed young fellow called at the shop and asked the doctor to prescribe for a breaking out and a rash on his left Tu:~ nimht tn he deDosited 1 UI3 wuujnu vug^v into taciturnity !" "You may go to Tass Eternity yourself, but I reckon you'll have none of my company, sir !" retorted the angry woman. 1 Wished They Were All Blind.? Robert Burns's friend, Dr. Blacklock, the blind poet, was a licentiate of the Church of Scotland and used to preach occasionally. One Sunday he we was supplying a country pulpit. Certain deaf old women, as was the custom in those days, had squatted on the pulpit stairs to be as near the preacher as possible. Like the mass of the Scottish people, they abominated sermons that were read. One of them, as soon as the discourse was beguu.said to her neighborin a tone that was audible through the whole church, "Is he readiu'?" "Tuts, woman ! No, he cauua read ?he's blind." "Blind, is he, eh? That's raal fort'nate. I wish they were a'bliud !" A Heartless Pony.?Two year old Helen (a little Wyoming girl) was much pleased when her brother brought L~ ? - nnnv Tht? fi>11mvintt LIULLIC an iuuiaii t/X7taJ * A ? ? - 0 day a neighbor boy, becoming too familiar with the pony, received a kick which sent him rolliug in the grass, while the pouy ran away and neighed loudly. "Poor boy," said Helen, from her place on the porch, "pony kicked him and den laughed at him." tsr The following advertisement recently appeared : "Being aware that it is indelicate to advertise for a husband, I refrain from doing so; but if any genlemau should be inclined to advertise for a wife, I will answer the advertisement without delay. I am young, have a good figure, am domesticated, and considered ladylike. Apply," etc. ? ? "That was a narrow escape Bildergate had, wasn't it? You know he was just about to marry a girl, when he found that she spent $1,500 a year on her dresses." "Yes, but be's married all the same." "True, but he didn't marry that girl." "He didn't; who did he marry, then ?" "Her dressmaker. "But, my boy, surely you are too young to marry my daughter Aurelia. How old are you ?" "Eighteen, sir." "And she is 24?too great disparity ! Why not wait half a dozen years? Then you'll be 24, and she'll probably be about the same age as you." She Had the Ammonia.?"Mamma," said a little girl, "I think I've got ammonia." "You shouldn't say ammonia, dear; you must say pneumouia." "But it isn't new, for I think I had it yesterday. Intranational Wessons. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON VI, SECOND QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, MAY 7. Text of the Leniton, John xv, 1-11. Memory VeriteK, 0-S?Golden Text, John xv, Tv? Commentnry Prepared by the Rev. D. M. Stearnw. [Copyright. ISM. by D. M. Stearns.] 1. "I am the true vine, and My Father is the husbandman." The principal thought of this part of His discourse seems to bo that of bearing fruit to the glory of God. In verse 10 He says that He chose and ordained them that they should bring forth fruit that should abide. In Rom. vii, 4, we are said to bo married to the Lord to bring forth fruit unto God. In John iv, 36; Ho spoko of fruit unto life eternal. In Rom. vi, 22, it is fruit unto holiness. The true vino is in contrast to Israel, which wjis the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts, but though planted a noble vine became turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vino unto the Lord (Isu. v, 7; Jer. ii, 21). 2. "Every branch in Mo that beareth not fruit Ho taketh away, and every branch that beareth fruit He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit." These words were spoken to eleven true disciples whom Ho had already taught that they could never perish and no power could pluck them out of His hand (John x, 27-29), so that we must not seek to find hero any reference to tho possible loss of the souL It is wholly a question of fruit bearing or otherwise, and the husbandman's treatment of the fruitful and unfruitful branches. 8. "Now ye are clean through tho word which I have spoken unto you." He had told them in chapter xiii, 10, that they were clean every whit, thus describing their standing in Him, accepted in the Beloved (Eph. i, 6). But Ho also referred to a need of constant cleansing in daily life bccauso of contact with tho world. This is spoken of also in chapter xvii, 17, and Eph. v, 26. There is a sanctiflcation that is ours by the one offering of Christ once for all, and all who are justified are also sanctified (Hcb. x, 10, 14; I Cor. vi, 11). 4. "Abide in Me and I in you. As tne branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abido in the vine, no more can yc except ye abide in Me." In Hos. xiil, 9; xiv, 8. He says, "In Mo is thino help; from Mo is thy fruit found;" in Isa. xlv, 24; xxvi, 12: "In the Lord have I righteousness and strength. Thou also hast wrought all our works for us." Everywhere the teaching is that wo have tho treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us (II Cor. iv, 7). How, then, shall we abide? Hudson Taylor says that he raado great efforts to abide until he saw that it needed weakness and not strength to abide. 5. "I am the vine; ye aro tho branches. He that abideth in Me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit, for without Mo ye am do nothing." The margin says "severed from Me." Yet many try to do much that they call good apart from Him. Hut He says it is all nothing. It may be a great nothing or a small nothing, but unless He does it through us it will bo only wood, hay and stubble to be burned up and result in nothing but loss. Is it not wonderful to consider that the vine makes itself dependent upon the branches to bear fmit? Grapes are never gathered from the main stem of the vine, but always from the branches, now growth. 6. "If a man abide not in Me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered, and men gather them and cast them into the fire, and they arc burned." This helps to explain the first clause of verse 2. Tho branches that do not bear are like the salt that has lost its savor and is trodden under foot of man (Math, v, 13). 7. "If ye abide in Me and My words abide in you, ye shall nsk what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." This is about the same as chapter xiv, 13, 14, and includes the thought of being about His business and seeking only His glory. Abiding in Him includes our weakness yielded to His strength, His strength made perfect in our weakness, His life made manifest by His Spirit in us. Tho Spirit works through and by the word. 8. "Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My disciples." In chapter viii, 31, He said, "If ye continue hi My word, then are ye My disciples indeed." Tho word in us will cause us to continue in His word, and by the word and the Spirit we shall be filled Willi I lie iruirs i)i rigmeuusiiuss wmuu uru by Jesus Christ unto the glory anil praise of God (Phil, i, 11). The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance (Gal. v, 22), and whatever God does with us or wherever lie places us we may bo sure that His desire is to havo us bear more fruit. 9. "As the Father hath loved Me, so have I loved you; continueyc in My love." We must persistently believe that He loves us with an unchanging love, an everlasting love, a love that brought Him from heaven to earth for us, a love that 6parcd not Himself and will therefore with Himself freely give us all things (Jer. xxxi, 3; Rom. viii, 32). We must ever believe. The Son of God loved me and gave Himself for me (Gal. ii, 20), and in all our service the thought of our hearts should bo "Unto Him who loved me (loveth me) and washed me from my sins in His own blood" (Rev. i, 5). 10. "If ye keep My commandments, ye 6hall abide in My love, even as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in His love." He did always those things that pleased the Father (chapter viii, 29). But how can we be in any measure thus pleasing unto Him? The answer is found In such passages as II Cor. vi, 10, "God hath said, I will dwell in them and walk in them," and Hob. xiii, 20, 21, "The God of peace working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ." If you ask how it is to be done, what is our part, the answer is in Rom. vi, 13; xii, 1: "Yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead. Present your l>odies a living sacrifice and be not conformed to this world." 11. ' These things have I spoken unto you that My joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full." Compare xiv, 25; xvi, 1, 33, and see how He would have us also never offended, but finding peace in Him even in tribulation. The remaining verses of this chapter teach us that wo must not expect better treatment than He received, but in all that people do to us or say of us we may have His peace and joy, which was not dependent upon feelings or circumstances, but was found in His oneness with the Father and the consciousness of His approval. We may learn to say, ''Though flocks and herds, vine, olive and fig tree all fail, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will joy in the God of my salvation" (Hab. iii, 18). iUiscrUanrous Reading. IN COUNTIES AUJOININB. t S Summitry of t!ie News That I? Being Pub- ^ lished by Exchanges r CHESTER?The Lantern, April 25: t Jauie Lemon, a young colored woman f who had been employed as nurse, we 1 believe, in the family of Mr. J. A. f Brice, of VVinusboro, since she was a 1 child, was arrested Friday for seuding I obscene matter through the mail. She t hail written anonymous letters of a de- ' famatory character about a rival, which < were traced to her. She was taken to i Columbia, and ou the way was attack- ? ed with something like cholera morbus. I This was partially relieved ; but. after ^ she was committed she was found to be c very ill, and soon died. Dr. Lester t said affection of the heart caused her c death. She was regarded as very re- c spectable and was apparently in good l health, and it is thought that the heart * trouble was brought on by the shuck ? of being arrested and the dread of 1 punishment and disgrace. Mr. A. c V. Worthy, who went to Texas Jau- b uary a year ago and enlisted in the ( First Texas regiment, was mustered v out at San Antonio on the 9th instant, a and has returned to this county. We f learu that he considers the net ad- li vantages of this county superior to h those of any place he has been. a Miss Janie Sloan died Sunday at Black- t stock, after a lingering illness, in the v 48th year of her age. t CHEROKEE?The Gaffney Ledger, Henry McCollough, one of Cherokee's n most worthy young men, left Saturday a for Bonham, Tex. Henry deserves il well and we trust he will meet with v success in the Loan Star State. A h small fire occurred yesterday afternoon e at the place of business of Boyd & li Boyd, colored men, who run a grocery * store and restaurant opposite the Na- d tional bank. The fire occurred in the h sleeping apartment of the owners, and y was caused from a defective flue. A y lot of bed-clothing, wearing apparel, v etc., was destroyed ; but the fire was p gotten under control before any other r damage was done. The Second p Quarterly conference of Spartauburg u district was held in the Methodist d church yesterday at 9.30 a. m. Rev. h Mr. Meadows, presided. Mr. A. N. g Wood was elected secretary, Prof. W. a S. Hall and J. C. Otts were elected c delegates to the district conference w which meets at Woodruff next July, si The long unsettled question oflocating 'I the new Methodist church was settled ri and work will commence soon to build si a commodious church on the beautiful lot, corner of Buford and Petty steets. The trustees are directed to sell the old church and lot, also to sell the ' parsonage and lot, the intention being to build a new parsonage on the new lot. c LAN CASTER?Ledger, April 26: On Sunday morning last, Sidney Belk, P colored, aged 21 years, was shot aud ^ killed by Isaac Hammond, also color- 8 ed, on Mr. J. H. Flynn's place near " Dixie. They lived together and were " working a farm together. Ou Saturday Hammond came to town, getting b auother boy to work in his place. n Early Sunday morning Belk and Ham- j* mond got into a quarrel over Ham- " mond's going to town so often. One of them grabbed an old musket to 11 sboot tbe other with wheu they got into a scuffle over the gun. In the 0 scuffle the gun was fired, tbe load of Cl >hot eoteriug Belk's body about the navel and ranging downwards aud to b the left. He lived about one hour. 8 Belk, the Negro killed, had been in several difficulties before, and bad " been shot once or twice. Hammoud n was committed to jail. The ex- a penses of the receut term of court for this county amounted to $1,063.95. " Expenses were as follows: Grand jl jurors, $197.40; petit jurors, $368.40 ; * constables, $82 90; Witnesses, $515.25. l' Mr. W. B Gulp was in a critical condition last Friday night from the effecls of morphine. He had been o.;,.?o?Ci>lu dnrintr the dav aud H O..UV..M5 O had been taking small doses to relieve his pain. He got no relief and in- c creased the dose. The morphine finally began to act aud it was soon appar- v ent that he had taken too much. Dr. v\ W. M. Crawford was telephoned for a and went at once. He succeeded iu F counteracting the effects by the use of a antidotes and the following day Mr. " Culp was pronouuced out of dunger. s< Mrs. Elizabeth Fletcher, aged a about 70 yeurs, died at Kershaw, of ti heart disease, last Friday. She was U the wife of Mr. John S. Fletcher and y mother of Mr. D. K. Fletcher of that p town. Henry Perry, colored, was a bitten by a supposed maddog last Sat- t< urday night at the F'itzpatrick place b near Tank. The Negro was sleeping ti in the seed room at the ginhouse and t< the dog went in and attacked him, bit- lc ing him through the hand several ? times. He grabbed the dog by the h throat and made an alarm which a brought several persons to his rescue, a He grabbed a gun from one of his res- w cuers; but when the dog suddenly r< came out of the seed room the whole party fled to a place of safety not car- IV ing to tackle a maddog in the night o. time. t( GASTON?Gastonia Gazette, April t: 27 : The soldier boys of the F'irst reg- c i men tare at home again. Gastonia's ti contingent comprised Corporals 1). T. F Davis and Wright Dixon, and Privates it Ben Dixon, Jewett Richards, Otis Al- h len and M. P. Withers, all of whom ? arrived Saturday night or Sunday. s< Mr. Withers has displayed in Morris Brothers' window a Cuban machete t< and other interesting relics. At Char- B lotte, Durham, Shelby and other points e: the returning boys were accorded rousing receptions. A lot of cigars tl was seized at Mauney Brother's store t< in King's Mountain last Monday with counterfeit stamps on them. They ti were manufactured and sold by one William Jacobs at Lancaster, Pa., who was recently arrested by secret service 1 officials. Jacobs had a complete outfit w for printing the stamps and had used J 510,000 or $12,000 worth and had sold nillions of his cigars from Maine to Pexas. The department notified the evenue officers all over the country to eize the Jacobs's goods wherever 'ouud, aud seizures have already beeu nade at Charlotte and other points in his state, and at points in other states 'rorh Rhode Island to Louisiana, and rorn New York to California. It is irobable lhat innocent dealers who lave actually paid for the cigars will >e permitted to retain thein on condiiou that they restamp them. Cigars lot paid for will be sold and the pro:eeds turned into the treasury. A neeting will begin tomorrow morning it 10 o'clock in the A. R. P. church at Bessemer. Preaching by Rev. G. R. -Vhite, D. D., of Griffith's, N. C. The ueinbers are urged to arrange that hey may all be there, and the people >f the town and community are most :ordially invited to all the services by he pastor, Rev. J. M. Garrison, who ends us this notice. Mrs. W. A. Sossaman corrects the statement pubisbed last week that her husband had lot been vaccinated. The report that le had not been vaccinated came to lastonia through some of our citizens vho were in Charlotte Monday, and .lso through other channels. Our inormation was regarded as entirely reiable, and the fact that Mr. Sossaman lad taken smallpox made the report ppear so plausible that we did not' hink of investigating it. We print rith pleasure Mrs. Sossaman's correcion. She writes: "You are misinarmed as to Mr. Sossaman's having ot been vaccinated. He had been nd had a good scar. All of our fainly were vaccinated last year, and now /e are vaccinated again. The doctors ad told Mr. Sossaman his scar was nough, so do not think he thought so ittle of the public and his family." There are lots of things that on't happen. A marriage in Gastonia ist Sunday is one of them. The oung man got his license all right; es, he did, and the girl it seemed was ailing. But the old people were oposed to allowing this case of love to un too smoothly. The license was rnmirpH the time set. the magistrate otified, the groom was ready, and a etail of young men seDt in the dead ours of Saturday night to stfal the irl.' But lo and behold ! when they pproached the back window' to reeive the waiting, trembling bride, 'horn should they see but the old man itting at the window loaded for bear, 'hey didn't get the girl and the mariage is among the things that were sheduled but never happened. OUT AT HICKORY UROVE. mproved Mail Facilities?Notes About People-Mr. Moorliead Will Build a Residence. Jorrespondence of the Torkrille Enquirer. Hickory Grove, April 27.?The ostoffice department has notified 'ostmaster Allison that at the beinning of next quarter, this office will e changed from a limited money orer to a pay office. Miss EsteJIe Henderson bas closed er school at the Leech academy and Jturned to her home at Waterloo, mch to the regret of some of our oys. Miss Ellu Allison is visiting friends i Laurens county. Mrs. W. S. Wilkerson bas been seriusly ill for several days; but is now onsidered out of danger. ' Uncle Jimmie" Scoggius is able to e out again after a conflict with the rip. Mr. C. S. Moorhead bas given out ae contract for a handsome two-story jsidence on the corner of Peachtree ud York streets. Dr. C. C. Leech, who recently gradated at the Uuiversity of Nashville, as formed a co-partnership with Dr. 'eal in the practice of mediciue and ae drug business. KINDNESS TO A STRANGER. low It Paid In the Case of Geo. A. Frick and Sister. harlotte Observer. Many of the readers of The Obserer will remember Prof. C. A. Mezger, 'ho lived for many years in Charlotte nd vicinity, and who recently died at 'reiberg, Saxony. Prof. Mezger was metallurgist and mining expert, and 'as a very highly educated man. For jmetime Prof. Mezger lived in Shelby, nd while there became very much attched to George A. Frick, one of the aiding lawyers of that town, who last ear moved to Norfolk, Va., for the ractice of his profession. Mr. Frick ud his family were exceedingly kind > the old gentleman, aud he remetnered their kindness in a very substanul way, as the sequel will show. Af ?r leaving Sbelhy, he came to Char>tte and resided awhile, aud then etit oil on a tonr for his health. He ad taken out naturalization papers nd had been a resident of this state ud he expected to return to America 'hen his health improved. His last esidence in America was in Charlotte. In January last Prof. Mezger wrote Ir. Frick a letter from Freiberg, Saxny, iu which he stated that he willed ) him and his sister all of his propery aud he directed Mr. Frick take harge of it at his death. At the same me he sent $2,000 to some bankers in lew York, with instructions to turn , over to Mr. Frick at his death. The itter written to Mr. Frick has been dmitted to probate befote Clerk Rusell, as containing the last will aud estament of Prof. Mezger and letters estamentary were yesterday issued to Ir. Frick. It is understood that the state is valued at about ?3,UUU. Mr. Frick's many friends throughout tie state will rejoice that his kindness 3 a stranger in a.strange land resulted i this substantial token of appreciaon. The Japanese War Indemnity.? 'lie Japanese war indemnity, which as paid over to representatives of the apanese government the other day in London, was iu the form of a single check on the Bank of England for ?11,008,857 16s 9d. This is the largest check ever drawn on the bank, and was delivered by Sir Halliday Macartney on behalf of the Chinese government. The transaction took place at the Threadneedle Street institution in the presence of the governor, the deputy governor and the chief cashier of the bank. With Sir Hulliday was T. Y. Lo, representing the Chinese TU- _ 1 f minister, me largeness m iuc wm is. owing to the fact that the Chinese government, by the treaty of Shimonoseki, took advantage of the right to pay the outstanding portion of the indemnity by a single payment at the end of the third year, from May 5, 1895, instead of by means of equal annual installments extending until the seveulh year. The entire balance of the indemnity and one year's occupation expenses of VVei-hai-wei were paid therefore. The transaction really involved a sum of nearly ?13,000,000, the difference having been settled on account. Watering With a Rake.?The New York experiment station gives the following sensible advice in regard saving and utilizing the moisture that is in the soil: "Let me tell you how to water the plants. I wonder if you have a watering pot? If you have, put it where you cannot find it, for we are going to water this garden with a rake! We want you to learn in this little gardeu the first great lesson in farming?bow to save the water in the soil. If you learn that much next summer, you .will know more than many old larmiers do. You know that the soil-is I moist in the spring when you plant the I seeds. Where does tnis moisture go to? It dries up?goes off iuto the air. If we could cover the soil with something we should preveDt the moisture from dryiog up. Let us cover it wilh a layer of loose dry earth 1 We shall make this covering by raking the bed every few day?once every week, anyhow, and oftener than that if the top of the soil becomes bard and crusty, as it does after a rain. Instead of pouring water on the bed, therefore, we shall keep the moisture in the bed. "If, however, the soil becomes so dry in spite of you that the plants do not thrive, then water the bed. Do not sprinkle it, but water it. Wet it clean through at evening. Then iu the morning, when the surface begins to dry, begiu the raking again to keep the water from getting away. Sprinkling the plants every day or two is one of the surest ways to spoil them." What "Sing a Song of Six Pence" Means.?You all kuow this rhyme, but have you ever heard what it really means? fTbe four-and-twenty blackbirds repsented the twenty-four hours. The bottom of the pie is the world, wbiie the top crust is the sky that overarches it. The opening of the pie is the day dawn, when the birds begin to sing and surely such a sight is fit for a king. The king, who is represented as sitting in his parlor counting out bis money, is the suu, while the gold pieces tbab slip througn nis nngers, as uc counts them, are the golden sunbeams. Tbe queen, who sits in the dark kitchen, is tbe moon, and tbe honey with which she regales herself is the moonlight. The industrious maid, who is in the garden at work before her king?the sun?has risen, is day-dawn, and tbe clothes she hangs out are tbe clouds. The bird who, so tragically ends the soug by "nipping off her nose" is the sunset. So we have the whole day, if not iu a nutshell, in a pie. The Modern Gun.?A feature of the modern gun will doubtless be its accuracy of aim, says Professor Ira N. Hollis, in the June Atlantic. Tbe guns of the first monitor had the ordinary sights, and the men had to look out through portholes of a revolving turret to find the enemy. We might say they often fired "on the wiug," with very indefinite notions of tbe range, and the briefest instant for training the guns. The Iowa's turrets have small boxes projecting above the cov- . eis for lookouts. Horizontal slits are cut near the tops of these boxes, giving a view around the horizon. The guns themselves are aimed by means of cross hairs in telescopes, and fired by electric buttons, which are instantaneous in their action. Once the cross hair is on the object, the projectile may be sent on its way at a velocity of 2,000 feet a second before the roll of the ship has time to impair its accuruev. About Planting Navy Beans.? Commenting upon what he calls a fatal &isiake iu growing navy beans? planting them in March, April and May?a correspondent of the Atlanta Southern Cultivator says: "I have grown them for several years in a small way, and at first was greatly annoyed hv weevil. In fact, I had one entire c? op destroyed by weevil. The certain remedy in this section is not to plant before June 1, and I should think farther south some later. The weevil does uot bother my June-planted beans." 1 m To Destroy Cut Worms.?After the land is prepared to receive the crop, take cabbage or turnip leaves, RoYA t Absolutely ^ Makes the food more del ROYAL BAKINO POwt flip them into a bucket of water into which a half pound of paris greeu has been dissolved, scatter them over the ground and the worms will devour them and thereby commit suicide. SOUTH CAROLINA & GEORGIA RAILROAD CO. TIME TABLE NO. 16. In Effect 12.01 a. m., Sunday, Jan. 1,1899. ttrwofn _ p \ Qrp ' ? ? CiO i? ? 1st Class Da ily. 1st Class Dally. Leaves. a.m., 7 00 Charleston, 8 17 arrives, p.m. *" a.m., 6 20 Augusta, 10 45 arrives, p.m. " a.m., 0 20 Columbia, 5 20 arrives, p.m. " a.m., 10 10 Kingsvllle, 4 28 arrives, p.m. NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION. WEST. EAST. H1 7,7 77 ? ? ? 2d c 2d c 1st c UliUlUlliJi i8tc2dc2dc a. m. a. at. a. m. Leave. Arrive. p. m. p. m. p. m. 8 20 11 40 Camden 3 00 4 30 8 50 12 00 De Kalb 2 40 4 00 9 05 12 12 "Westvllle 2 28 3 40 10 10 12 40 Kershaw...... 2 15 3 15 10 30 12 55 Heath Springs. 1 45 2 10 10 40 1 00 ..Pleasant HJ1L. 1 40 2 00 11 50 1 20 ....Lancaster.... 1 20 1 20 12 15 1 35 .... Riverside 1 05 12 15 1 50 1 50 .Catawba J'c'n. 12 50 11 20 3-10 2 15 ....Rock Hill.... 12 25 9 50 3 50 2 .35 Tlrzah 12 05 8 15 4 40 2 48 Yorkvllle.... 11 52 7 50 5 10 3 03 Sharon 11 37 7 15 5 30 3 18 Hickory Grove 11 22 6 50 5 45 3 30 ..^...Hmyrna 11 10 6 30 7 40 6 20 3 35 ... Blacksburg... 10 45 6 00 7 25 ** 8 00 4 tO Earls 10 30 7 00 8 10 4 15 .PatlersonSp'g. 10 25 6 45 9 00 4 25 Shelby 10 15 6 30 9:15 4 45 ....Lattimore.... 9 55 5 10 9 49 4 52 ...Mooresboro... 9 48 4 52 10 10 5 02 Henrietta. 9 38 4 25 10 35 5 19 ....Forest City.... 9 21 4 00 11 00 5 34 Rutherfordton. 9 00 3 30 11 45 5 59 .Thermal City.. 8 41 2 50 12 10 6 14 Glenwood 8 24 2 25 12 35 6 30 Marlon 8 10 2 00 p.it. p.m. p.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. GAFFNEY BRANCH. ^ west. ea8t. 85 83 S4 86 M'x'd M'x'd STATIONS. M'x'd M'x'd p.m. a.m. Leave. Arrive, a.m. p.m. 4 10 5 30 Blacksburg 7 30 6 80 4 35 5 50 ... Cherokee Falls.... 7 05 6 05 5 00 6 20 Gaffhey 6 40 5 40 P.M. A. M. A.M. P.M. ? > > Train No. 77, going west, makes daylight connection at Lancaster with the L. & C. R.R.; at Rock Hill with the Southern R. R.. going north; at Blacksburg with the Southern. Train No. 78, going east, makes connection at Marlon, N. C., with the Southern R. R.; at Blacksburg with the Southern, and at Lancaster with the L. & C. R. R. Train No. 81, going east, makes connection at Shelby, N. C., with the S. A. L. R. R., going east. All local freight trains will carry passengers If provided with tickets. L. A. EMERSON, S. B. LUMPKIN, Traffic Manager. Dlv. Pass. Agent. ^mM^mmmmmmmMwmmmHM ** D. W. HICKS. R. B. RIDDLE. GRIST COUSINS. Seasonable Eatables. When you want seasonable eatables, call on GRIST COUSINS, where you can always get them- at the correct prices. For instance we are selling a splendid quality of? Evaporated Apples at 12 cts. Evaporated Peaches, 12% cts. Syrup Peaches, 20 cents. Pie Peaches, 15, or two for 25 cents.' Mermaid Oysters?finest on the market. Three pounds of the best Soda for 10 cents. Ten pounds of good Rio Coffpp for $ t. 00. Georgia Syrup of a good quality. When you want anything in the Fancy Grocery line, call and see us. GRIST COUSINS. "Never Li Its History Has Yorkville Had a Superior ^ JEWELRY STORE!" SUCH is. almost invariably the expression made by persons?both ladies and gentlemen?who have visited us in our NEW QUARTERS. Heretofore we have not had enough room to conduct a JEWELRY BUSINESS such as we have _ all along desired to do; but now we are fixed for business and cordially invite you to come and see us in our magnificent quarters in the Kuykesdal Building, where, during the past few days, we have been engaged in opening our New Goods. We have now a line of Jewelry that has More Style, More Values and at Lower Prices than ever before seen or dreamed of. See- ^ ing is believing. Come and see us. EVERYTHING GUARANTEED To be exactly what it is represented to be. SPECK, the jeweler. lohsrothT * IMPORTED TEAS. t n a vi? flmenln ER CO., NEW YORK. J